Stryker offers a wide range of entry and development opportunities in an innovative and high-tech environment. The talents and strengths of our employees are our top priority. During your internship, you will gain a comprehensive insight into the work of an international market leader in medical technology, particularly in the field of navigated spinal and cranial surgery.

Our offer to you

• We are offering an internship in Interactive Guidance for Navigated Spinal/Cranial Surgery.

• You will have the opportunity to develop prototypes for our Surgical Navigation System and support our team with your proof-of-concept application.

• You will be an active member of our international and interdisciplinary research and development team.

• You will implement your solution using C++ or Python and Matlab and evaluate it in an ecosystem consisting of state-of-the-art navigation and imaging systems.

• You will learn and apply the latest technologies in machine vision, computer graphics, human-computer interaction and interactive systems.

• You will conduct independent research in the surgery room environment to find out how innovative ideas can be applied in a value-adding way.

That makes you stand out

• You are studying towards a master’s degree in computer science, medical engineering, mathematics, physics or a comparable subject.

• You have experience with test setups and object-oriented programming languages (e.g. C/C++), script languages (e.g. Python, Matlab) or libraries (OpenCV, VTK, Qt, DCMTK).

• You have a good grasp of mathematics.

• You want to tackle challenging problems in medical engineering.

• You are known among friends and fellow students for your initiative and flexibility.

• You have a good command of English and ideally a good command of German.

• You work independently, are highly motivated and committed, and are prepared to take on responsibility quickly.

Diversity is important to us. We welcome applications from people regardless of their ethnic, national or social origin, gender, disability, age or sexual identity.